Poetry from the Kings' Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to C. 1035 (Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages #1) (1ST ed.)

Marc Notes:
From mythical times to c.1035 -- series title page.;Includes bibliographical references and index.;Text in Old Norse with parallel translation and critical matter in English.

Review Quotes:
"Poetry from the Kings' Sagas 1, like the other published volumes of the series, is stunning in the amount of information--both documentary and interpretive--that it makes available, and perhaps equally stunning in its implication of how much is still unknown or uncertain and remains to be discovered. This volume is particularly wide in the scope of its interest: poetic form, the prosimetrical genre, transmission of texts, Norwegian history, pre-Christian Nordic religion, and much more. We can look forward to the new wave of skaldic studies it is certain to generate. It lives up to the high standards and, not least, the efficiency of the series thus far, and bodes well for the volumes that are still forthcoming." -- Martin Chase, The Medieval Review

Publisher Marketing:
Volumes 1 and 2 in the SKALD series present the large and important body of skaldic poetry preserved in sagas about the kings of Norway and other Scandinavian rulers. Vol. 1 is dedicated mainly to court poetry in praise of rulers from the legendary Yngling kings to Olafr Haraldsson (St. Olav) and Knutr Sveinsson (Cnut the Great). Alongside formal commemoration of raids and battles there are dialogues with valkyries, lively travelogue, accounts of miracles, and freestanding stanzas capturing frustrated love and moments of humour. This volume also contains the General Introduction to the series.